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Re:Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native by paulryanrogers on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @06:10PM (#47240429)
Except the OS's don't even ship a consistent enough browser engine. (Standards be damned.) So apps ship their own browser over and over again.
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Re:Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native by zadikian on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @06:15PM (#47240486)
Yeppp. Is there no way for Electron apps to use a shared engine if one is available?
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Re:Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native by paulryanrogers on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @06:20PM (#47240532)
I think Tauri tries this approach.
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Re:Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native by edflsafoiewq on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @08:19PM (#47241747)
Of course. Arch for example ships packages that use a shared system electron. But you'll often end up need multiple electron versions.

There's also stuff like lorca which shells out to an installed Chromium browser.

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Re:Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native by c01nd01r on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @11:28AM (#47249889)
https://neutralino.js.org/

But I think even there it’s possible to encounter platform-dependent bugs - starting from view issues (you know, different OS can use different browser engines) and up to those related to system APIs.

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Re:Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native by pjmlp on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @01:06AM (#47243721)
And then you guys complain about Google taking over the Web!?!?

Go figure what would happen when Chrome gets shipped everywhere, because writing browser agnostic code is too hard.

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